Upcoming Tattersalls December Sales to take place as planned

The Tattersalls December Sales will go ahead as planned in accordance with government regulations concerning livestock and horse auctions, the company has revealed.

Despite the government's imposing of a second lockdown from Thursday the sale, which will start with the December Yearling Sale on November 23, will not need to be pushed back in the calendar.

The four-day Tattersalls December Foal Sale gets underway from November 25 to 28, while the event will conclude with the Tattersalls December Mares Sale from November 30 to December 3.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "We're delighted and relieved that we've received clarity on this crucial issue and it is clear that the ratified Government regulations will allow us to stage the full Tattersalls December Sale on the originally scheduled dates.

Tattersalls December Mares Sale takes place at Park PaddocksCredit: Laura Green

"This is a huge relief for the industry and we are enormously grateful that the 2020 bloodstock sales season in Britain can proceed and conclude as planned. The Tattersalls December Sale is an event of global significance within the bloodstock industry and the possibility of wholesale disruption was a deeply worrying prospect for all concerned.

He added: “As we all know, staging bloodstock sales in 2020 has been challenging to say the least. To be able to hold the Tattersalls December Sales on the scheduled dates will be universally welcomed and applauded not only in Britain and Ireland, but by the wider bloodstock industry and we will continue to do our utmost to bring the testing 2020 Tattersalls sales season to as successful a conclusion as possible.”

The December Sales will take place under the current coronavirus protocols and will be restricted to those professionally involved in the auctions.

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